The Heart of Community Organizing

Question 1

Approach in social analysis that focuses on the life energies, strengths, best practices.

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Asset-focused approach

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Strengthening the capabilities of individuals, organization, and institutions to ensure sustainability of development efforts and the broad distribution of their benefits.

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Capacity development

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People-empowering role of facilitating development.

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Catalyst

Question 4

A description of the new forms of associations to represent thr interest of the people themselves alongside the state, economy, and political society.

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Civil society

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An institution, whether non-government organization or government organization, church-based organization committed to task of community development.

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Development organization

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Strength, vitality, force.

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Life energy

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Private voluntary organizations; societal development agencies or alternative support or cause-oriented groups that sre non-profit oriented or legal, which are committed to the task of development, and established primarily for socio-economic services, civic, religious, charitable and/or social welfare.

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Non-government organiztions

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Action-reflection-action

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Praxis

Question 9

A process through which stakeholders can influence and share control over development initiatives, and over the decisions and resources that affect themselves.

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Participatory development

Question 10

Process of enabling the people to gradually take over responsibility through capacity development.

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Phase over

Question 11

Approach in social analysis that focuses on the problems and their cause-effect relationships at the micro and macro levels.

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Problem-focused approach

Question 12

Three distinct but interrelated aspects of development process: people benefit from the development; people’s contribution to development; and people’s involvement in the decision-making regarding the nature and process of development.

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People’s participation

Question 13

Process of expansion to more quality benefits to more people over a wider geographical area more quickly, more equitably, and more lastingly.

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Scaling-up

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A process that elevates the individual reflections to a shared experience of developing a collective consciousness particularly to generate lessons and insights.

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Social learning

Question 15

The parties, individual or institutions, with intnerest in and/or affected by development initiatives, programs or projects.

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Stakeholders

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What is the essence of community organizing?

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People’s participation

Question 17

What is the heart of community organizing?

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The process

Question 18

What are the four fundamental elements of community organizing?

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Community people, community development worker, CO process, and community consciousness

Question 19

What is the stage of CO?

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The community

Question 20

This consists of people who have different interest in development.

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Community or stakeholders

Question 21

Those who may be expected to benefit or lose from certain development initiatives.

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Difectly affected

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Those with interest in outcomes.

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Indirectly affected

Question 23

Those line agency staff; local regional and national government officials.

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Government-elected official

Question 24

They are few in number; and they constitute an internally cohesive, well- organized groups.

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The haves

Question 25

They are politically weak, unorganized, poor, landless, unskilled.

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The have-nots

Question 26

The ______ include women and children, who make up its large proportion.

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The poor

Question 27

By virtue of their race and ethnicity as well as those disadvantaged by circumstances beyond their control, such as disabilities and natural or man-made disaster.

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The marginalized

Question 28

The partner of the people in development.

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Community development worker

Question 29

It is a process that facilitates participatory development in which "stakeholders can influence and share control over development initiatives, and over the decisions and resource that affect themselves."

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CO Process

Question 30

This brings together the community people and the community development worker in a helping process.

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Community consciousness

Question 31

The aim is to get the community's sanction and commitment to engage in a partnership with the CDW/DO for participatory development.

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Entry into the community

Question 32

This phase requires some basic considerations and preparations from the CDW and the DO which s/he belongs.

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Pre-entry

Question 33

This refers to the basic continuing effort by which the CDW becomes on with the CP by integrating himself/herself in the community life,

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Immersion with the people

Question 34

This phase of the process signals that the CP and CDW are already prepared to work together as partners in development.

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CO proper

Question 35

Aimed at enhancing participation in managing development initiatives.

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CO proper

Question 36

A conscious effort of understanding the reality of the community life as basis for planning.

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Social analysis

Question 37

Promotes greater awareness and increased abilities to identify different problems and their causes at the micro and macro levels.

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Problem-focused approach

Question 38

This kind of approach argues that communities can be brought to life if local assers, rather than local needs, becomes the focus.

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Asset-focused

Question 39

This ensures the sustainability of the organization and its development initiatives.

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Core group formation

Question 40

The four critical elements of capacity development.

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Capacity development intervention, organizational capacity, organizational performance, development impact

Question 41

Is a form of functional education, which can contribute to empowerment and partnership in the sense of a shared assessment and project management.

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Monitoring and evaluation

Question 42

This participatory mechanism pertains to the translation into local languages and dissemination of written materials using various media.

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Mechanisms for sharing information

Question 43

This participatory mechanism pertains to consultative meetings, field visits, and interviews.

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Mechanisms for consultations

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This participatory mechanism pertains to participatory assessments and evaluations, and beneficiary assessment.

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Mechanisms for joint assessment

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This participatory mechanism pertains to the particpatory planning techniques.

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Mechanisms for shared decision-making

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This participatory mechanism pertains to the formation of joint committees with stakeholder representative.

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Mechanisms for collaboration

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This participatory mechanism pertains to the decentralization of authority and its delegation to local organizations.

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Mechanisms for empowerment

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A geographical spread to cover more people and communities and involves expansion within the same sector or stakeholder group.

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Horizontal scaling-up

Question 49

Increasing participation by decentralization of accountabilities and responsibilities, particularly in breaking down big programs into smaller programs/projects.

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Scaling-down

Question 50

It is institutional in nature in that it involves other sectors/stakeholder groups in the process of expansion.

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Vertical scaling-up

Question 51

A systematic process of gathering, analyzing, and utilizing pertinent data about the community.

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Social investigation

Question 52

Is undertaken during the pre-entry phase in order to equip the community development worker with basic information about the community.

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Preliminary social investigation

Question 53

A systematized documentation featuring a holistic view of the community, includes the spot map.

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Tentative community profile

Question 54

The ability to secure relevant information about the community.

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Pakiki-balita

Question 55

The ability to feel the pulse of the people, their dreams and aspiration, concerns and sentiments, needs and problems, success and failures, striving and best practices.

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Pakiki-ramdam

Question 56

This documentary output includes the identification of the appropriate stakeholders in the community as vital data to move on to organizing phase.

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Validated community profile

Question 57

Refer to situations that can serve as starting points or sparks that can bring to life a multi-stakeholders' enlightened involvement in community development.

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Entry points

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This is carried out through the phase over. It signals growing and continuous genuine people's participation on managing development initiatives, as they get involved in the systematic knowledge generation and as they use the knowledge created to improve their solution.

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Deepening of Social Investigation

Question 59

This takes place during the immersion phase. At this point, initial data during the PSI are validated and enriched.

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Social investigation proper

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The ability to engage the people in the process of individual and collective discovery of their realities, visioning, planning, taking appropriate action, evaluation, and reflection.

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Pakiki-alam

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The ability to enable people to develop a sense of ownership of their development programs.

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Pakikisangkot

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This document serves as concrete basis for the people to come up with their plan of action designed to transform their realities.

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Operational community profile

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The process that elevates individual reflections to shared experience of developing a collective consciousness, particularly in terms of lessons and insights.

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Social learning

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This model is project-oriented.

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Locality development/community development

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This model is agency-oriented.

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Social planning

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This model is conflict confrontational.

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Social action

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Is an approach for understanding a system by key actors or stakeholders.

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Stakeholders analysis

Question 68

Focusing on understanding and documenting the differences in gender roles, activities, needs, and opportunities in a given context.

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Gender analysis

Question 69

A tool for social analysis that focuses on the identification of dynamic interrelationships between and among the strengths and weaknesses of internal environment as well as the opportunities and threats posed by the external environment.

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SWOT analysis

Question 70

This is built on searching for the positive, for successes, for what works, as opposaed to problem-oriented focus of most other planning and development strategies.

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Appreciative planning and action

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A tool that emphasize local knowledge and enables local people to do their own appraisal, analysis, and planning.

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Participatory rural appraisal

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A method of producing informational materials or publications where the different stakeholders come together and engage themselves in a social process of pooling their resources and knowledge to document a subject of common significance to them and to the larger society.

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Writeshop

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This training releases energy and creativity from the people. It deemphasizes technical competence and permits sharing of experiences.

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Participatory training

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Refers to the participation of the poor and others who are disadvantaged in terms of wealth, education, ethnicity, and gender.

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Popular participation

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Refers to the participation of all relevant stakeholders in the development process.

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Multi-stakeholders participation

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Action-reflection-celebration.

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Social praxis